{"id":2625,"date":"2016-05-17T20:08:51","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T04:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/?p=2625"},"modified":"2023-08-13T12:25:27","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T20:25:27","slug":"fair-winds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/?p=2625","title":{"rendered":"Fair Winds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/threadedviews.com\/main\/gallery-8\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2637\" src=\"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Fair-Seas-1.png\" alt=\"Fair Seas\" width=\"309\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Fair-Seas-1.png 747w, http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Fair-Seas-1-223x300.png 223w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 309px) 100vw, 309px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Almost 3 x 4 inches, hand embroidery on hand-painted silk, depicting somewhere off the coast of British Columbia. \u00a0The blue haze on the horizon is land in the distance.<\/p>\n<p>Where would you rather be, the boat or the cottage?<\/p>\n<p>*Detail alert*<\/p>\n<p>The boat hull is hand-painted ribbon and the sails are Tyvek. \u00a0Full-size boat sails can be made with Tyvek, and I think it&#8217;s the first time I&#8217;ve used the same material as reality! \u00a0I\u00a0shaded them with scraps of mesh from a fancy ribbon. \u00a0I also painted them but they only hold a little bit of colour. \u00a0I used acid-free glue and thread to hold the pieces down, depending on whether they were large enough to take a needle.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2641\" src=\"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7358-1024x755.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_7358\" width=\"548\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7358-1024x755.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7358-300x221.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7358-768x566.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 548px) 100vw, 548px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This strange picture is of Tyvek. \u00a0It&#8217;s from a FedEx envelope. \u00a0(I don&#8217;t use the parts with the lettering on, haha). \u00a0The piece on the left is full-thickness. \u00a0If you split it at the edge with your fingernails and pull it apart, you get pieces like the ones on the right. \u00a0Looks a bit ghosty doesn&#8217;t it? \u00a0The thickness is very uneven, but then you can choose as thin a piece as you need.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s a small piece of ribbon at the bottom, with the mesh part in the middle that I placed on my Tyvek to reduce the white glare.<\/p>\n<p>Fair winds and following seas to you all!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost 3 x 4 inches, hand embroidery on hand-painted silk, depicting somewhere off the coast of British Columbia. \u00a0The blue haze on the horizon is land in the distance. Where would you rather be, the boat or the cottage? *Detail alert* The boat hull is hand-painted ribbon and the sails are Tyvek. \u00a0Full-size boat sails [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2625"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2625"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2652,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2625\/revisions\/2652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}